Modern Native

Watch: Their interaction is enough to turn even the grinchiest Grinch into a total holiday believer.

The Suontaka sword was found in Finland in a woman’s grave. It is dated around 1100ad

Pink # Victorian House n Cherry Blossom

A sandfall! This is amazing. What might be going on is when it rains in the desert the water isn’t absorbed quickly and mixes with the top layer of wet sand which can form moving sand rivers and waterfalls. (Source)

Pectoral and neckalace of Sithathoryunet with the name of Senwosret II, made in Egypt, c.1887-1878 BC (source).

In 1898 Nikola Tesla once tricked an entire crowd into believing they could control a toy boat by shouting commands - he had in fact invented Radio Control and was piloting the boat himself.

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The Orkney Hood. Made of wool, it dates from 250 - 615 AD. It was found in a bog on the Scottish island of Orkney (image National Museums of Scotland)

1 Peter 4:8 (via buhaybabae)

The Massandra Palace, residence of Emperor Alexander III of Russia, Massandra, Crimea

WW-I battlefields remain uninhabitable for 300-900 years. iI’s because of the unrecovered human remains, chemical contamination, plus unexploded artillery shells, all lost in the soil which at the time was churned into mud by the sheer volume of artillery used. (Source)

To. Let. That. Shit. Go.

These beautiful illustrations were shared with Skunk Bear by The Armitt, a charming museum/library/gallery nestled in Lake District Natural Park in Northern England.

It is, frankly, one of my pet peeves that she’s still called an “amateur”. Because the only thing that kept her from being “professional” was institutional sexism.

But that’s not to say that she wasn’t engaged in the scientific conversation - or that amateurs can’t contribute novel information to the collection of human knowledge. Or that the dudes at London’s Linnean Society weren’t a bunch of jerks.